Assumption Quote by Nicholas Eberstadt

In the West, that's what's happening. The birth rate has been dropping steadily and still is. But there is still a vast amount of…

— David Attenborough

People with fertility problems are not alone. It is a very very common problem for couples today. I've seen statistics that are just staggering.

— Michael Zaslow

Third world nations are producing too many children too fast...it is time to ignore the controversy over family planning and cut out-of-control population growth...

— Al Gore

“In 1800 the United States had a birth rate higher than any ever recorded for a European country, but it fell steeply and consistently…

— Richard White

World fertility surveys indicate that anywhere from one third to one half of the babies born in the Third World would not be if…

— Donella Meadows

The population explosion is an ecological phenomenon of displacement. Unless we solve that ecological problem of displacing people - to build huge dams, to…

— Vandana Shiva

If fertility drops much below 2.1 babies per woman, the population will shrink unless it is offset by higher immigration. For this reason, a…

— Greg Ip

“when fertility rates began collapsing in the late 1960s, another demographic transition was occurring, the result of a fundamental restructuring: People no longer put…

— Jonathan V. Last

For what's the point of breeding children, if each generation does not improve on what went before.

— Hilary Mantel

“Basically in every decade since 1840, life expectancy has increased by two to three years. So if a child born in 2007 has a…

— Lynda Gratton

“No one can know, of course, accurate population figures from an era before there was a census, but many officials on the ground at…

— Adam Hochschild

Beyond 2050 the world population may start to decrease if women across the world will have, on average, less than 2 children. But that…

— Hans Rosling